Mapping the Sneakernet
...the offline population as those who haven’t gone online in the past 12 months. Following the implicit logic of such statistics, it can be easy to assume that being unconnected...
Follow The Leader
...six languages. And there is a Catholic presence online outside of Vatican-sponsored activities. You can visit a Catholic Church on Second Life–the most popular 3D virtual community which boasts over...
Security Culture Is Good
...If your friend sends you a link that looks weird, call or text them to make sure they actually sent it. The most common way people get owned online is...
On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
Data Transgression
...enthusiastic, worshipful comments like “This is why I love the Internet!” The recent defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) produced many examples of this phenomenon: Lawrence Lessig summarized...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...ended in December. After I stopped it, I started writing in different modes, much less online, then writing more what felt like what essays are sometimes supposed to feel like,...
Public Spaces
...of a diptych. Bewersdorf is no longer online. If he is, he has cloaked himself in total anonymity. He removed his texts and images from his old portfolio site—as though...
Choose Your Own Adventure
...sexuality “demands racism as a particular form of exogamy.” Theirs was a hidden subculture, but today online dating profiles advertise racial preferences like favorite ice cream flavors. Light-hearted references to...
kburd: Caliban Responds
...it? Why are they closing ranks? Who is rendered vulnerable? 13. Little of how these senior scholars have conducted themselves online convinces me that they would have been willing to...
Power Loss
...tanks like the Heritage Foundation, which published two online articles on the subject in March alone. “Chaos From the Sky: Why the EMP Threat is Real” and “The EMP Threat:...
The Luck of the Listserve
...art by Adam Simpson The Listserve brings online strangers together in an era oversaturated with friends "Like all the men of Babylon," wrote Jorge Luis Borges in The...
The Plague Years
...brief foray online suggests that there are productive ways to take advantage of the virality of social networks. In his concluding chapter, he goes on to suggest that there are...
TNI Vol. 13 Editorial Note: Bartlebea the Dater
...Love in the Time of Algorithms, which poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance?...
Midwest
...Because I was thinking of you, returning to Goshen for your writing conference this weekend, yesterday I read a couple essays published online by Rachel Yoder . She writes, “...
Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation
...to evangelize. I communicate what I need to happen and when, and we are an efficient team finding answers together. The nature of being online as you plan for an...
Sunday Reading
...are not the next housing bubble Exposé of the ACCJC, the accrediting agency that's threatening to shut down CCSF Online class on how to teach online classes goes laughably awry...